Press Release Digest 11th June 2007

PLACES STILL AVAILABLE!!

WILDLIFE WORLDWIDE
FUNDS FOR CONSERVATION
4th ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF WILDLIFE

Natural history specialists Wildlife Worldwide, have raised over £50,000 over the last three years for conservation through their annual international Festival of Wildlife event. Fundraising continues in 2007 with the fourth festival, to be held from 16th - 23rd September in the beautiful setting of King Pacific Lodge, in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest. Departs Heathrow 16th September 2007.

At least £180 from each booking, plus other monies raised from fundraising activities during the festival, go directly to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation and local conservation projects, including helping the local Gitga’at people maintain this unique environment. Training Gitga’at bear guides, conducting inventories of plant and animal species, monitoring salmon streams and maintaining cultural sites such as the historic long houses in Cornwall Inlet, are just some of the activities supported. King Pacific Lodge is a floating ‘barge’ unlike any other, snuggled into the thickly forested shore of Barnard Harbour, on Princess Royal Island in the heart of the rainforest. Princess Royal Island and its neighbouring islands are home to a small community of elusive Spirit Bears; rare all-white Black Bears who owe their unusual colouring to a double recessive gene. Accompanied by experienced and knowledgeable Gitga’at native guides, searching for this whiter than your average bear is an adventure in itself. This year’s guests will enjoy a packed programme of presentations, masterclasses and workshops by wildlife experts including Mandy Shepherd and fellow DSWF wildlife artist Jonathan Truss, wildlife photographers Mark Carwardine, Nick Garbutt and David Back, bear and rainforest expert Ian McAllister, wolf specialist Chris Darimont and whale experts Janie Wray and Hermann Meuter.

The tour costs from £4,895 p/p including scheduled flights with Air Canada, private transfers, full board accommodation at the King Pacific Lodge, local conservation fee and expertly guided wildlife activities.